A Carnot engine has an efficiency of 50% when its source is at a temperature 327°C. The temperature of the sink is [2023]
100°C
200°C
27°C
15°C
(3)
Efficiency of Carnot engine is
Where, is the temperature of the source and is the temperature of the sink.
Given that,
or
A Carnot engine having an efficiency of 1/10 as heat engine, is used as a refrigerator. If the work done on the system is 10 J, the amount of energy absorbed from the reservoir at lower temperature is [2017, 2015]
90 J
99 J
100 J
1 J
(1)
The relation between coefficient of performance and efficiency of Carnot engine is given as
Given
Since,